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  • Adding rules to SpamAssassin and keeping them up-to-date automatically

    So I’ve been getting a lot of spam lately, and decided to add more rules to SpamAssassin. I found two nice solutions for automatically (via cron or the like) download new rulesets. I’ve decided to go with Maxime Ritter’s rule-get perl script, which is like apt-get in many ways. It stuck the script in /usr/local/sbin […]

  • 15″ Aluminum PowerBook hard freezes

    So I’ve had a 1.67 Ghz PowerPC 15″ Aluminum PowerBook for about two months now, and am really enjoying it. I’ll have some stuff to stay later about porting Java applications to Mac OSX and some problems I’ve had with that, but for the most part things have been working very well. When I ordered […]

  • 49 hours in busses, planes, airports and taxis

    So I left Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning, catching a bus to get back to Singapore. The bus ride, on Aeroline, took five hours to get to Singapore. We watched “The Princess Diaries.” I can’t believe that I watched “The Princess Diaries”, but I did. Also, did you know that you have to go through […]

  • Happy New Year!

    Celebrated the New Year in Kuala Lumpur with Gyn-Ian Yap, Sue-Ling, Ken-Wei, and Elissa. Nice fireworks at Petronas towers, and then a crazy crowd trying to get into the subway to get home.

  • Coffee Shops in Malaysia

    I’m currently in Kuala Lumpur visiting a friend of mine from my undergraduate days. I’ve been meaning to visit Yap for years, and since Kualu Lumpur is only a five hour bus ride from Singapore, I finally was able to make the trip here. I’ve really enjoyed Malaysia so far, Yap and his girlfriend Sue-Ling […]

  • Weddings in Singapore

    I went to Singapore for my friend Min-Yen Kan’s wedding on December 23rd. I met up with another Columbia researcher, Michelle Galley, and we had a blast running around Singapore doing touristy things. I don’t approve of the Taxi system in Singapore though: we spent two hours trying to get one once. Singapore’s Taxis have […]

  • 2005 Dallas Turkey Trot

    On Monday the 21st I arrived in Dallas from Tokyo. The flight went well, in particular since I requested a seat with a power plug, I was able to use my computer for about four hours, and the flight seemed to go quickly. On Tuesday, I drove down to Austin to pick up Alana, and […]

  • Birthday Blood Typing

    So I turned 31 today, in Japan. This is the second birthday I’ve had in Japan actually. Last time I was here for a conference in 2002 I believe, and it was not memorable. I believe that I bought myself a cup-cake at a convenience store or something. This time, I had a memorable birthday. […]

  • SF2 scene at Shibuya’s Game Kaikan

    On Friday I decided to head over to my favorite arcade, the Shibuya Game Kaikan, and play some Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Anniversay Edition. Over on Shoryuken.com they call this one AE (Anniversary Edition) but I wonder what it is called in the states: there already was a Hyper Fighting over there. Anyway, I […]

  • Ikebana show

    Fumie and I went to a large Ikebana show at the Takashimaya in Nihonbashi on Sunday.  

  • Visit to Hiroshima City University

    On Wednesday morning I went to Hiroshima City University (広島市立大学) and met with Professor Hidetsugu Nanba (難波 英嗣), and was introduced to Dr. Teruaki Aizawa (相沢 輝昭 先生). I gave my multi-lingual multi-document summarization talk, as well as a brief demo of NewsBlaster and a short talk about graduate student life at Columbia University. Professor […]

  • Trip to Hiroshima, do I have to change this website to FuguTabeta.com??

    On Tuesday evening I took a train from Tsu to Nagoya, and from Nagoya to Hiroshima on a Hikari Shinkansen. The picture is actually of a Kodama Rail Star train from Hiroshima because the shot I got of my Nozomi 700 Series Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Tokyo didn’t turn out well. On arriving at Hiroshima, […]

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